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Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Changeby Don Beck and Chris Cowanhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Spiral+Dynamics%3A+Mastering+Val…Spiral Dynamics introduces a new model for plotting the enormous economic and commercial shifts that are making contemporary business practice so complex and apparently fragmented. Focusing on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques, the authors synthesize changes such as:   – Increasing cultural diversity.   – Powerful new social responsibility initiatives.   – The arrival of a truly global marketplace.This is an inspiring book for managers, consultants, strategists, and leaders planning for success in the business world in the 21st century.- presents a new framework for understanding the dynamic forces at work in human affairs – business, personal lives, education, and even geopolitics;- focuses on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques;- synthesizes changes such as: increasing cultural diversity; powerful new social responsibility initiatives; the arrival of a truly global marketplace;- adds power and precision to the theory of human systems and the 21st century leadership;- meshes UK biologist Richard Dawkins’ concept of “memes” with Gravesian “value systems” and lays out a very specific Tool Kit for managing the deepest differences in people;- demonstrates how, by applying the right tools at a base level rather than to surface symptoms, any bright, curious human being can, quite simply, change the world.About the AuthorDon Beck is Co-founder of The National Values Center, Denton, Texas. He taught at the University of North Texas; played a major role in the South African transformation; and applies and enhances Gravesian/Spiral Dynamics concepts in corporate, educational, and geopolitical initiatives worldwide. He is active with Ken Wilber in the Integral movement.Chris Cowan is Co-founder of The National Values Center and is based in Santa Barbara, California. He is partner in NVC Consulting which seek to continue and build on the legacy of Dr Clare W. Graves through research, application, and publications.[Cowan died in 2015, which is not reflected in this author description taken from the publishers website. http://spiraldynamics.org/about/ ]Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Overview of Spiral Dynamics:1. Different Times Produce Different Minds2. The Nature of MEME systems3. The Mind of the SpiralPart II: The Dynamics of the Spiral’s MEME’s:4. Change and the Spiral5. The Dynamics of Leadership6. Spiral Wizardry7. Spiral Alignment: Streaming Visions into Reality8. Spiral Integration: Power and Precision in Organization Design and TransformationPart III: The Spiral Wizard’s Field Manuel: 9. Beige: Survival Sense. The Instinctive MEME10. Purple: KinSpirits. The Clannish MEME11. Red: PowerGods. The Egocentric MEME12. Blue: TruthForce. The Purposeful MEME13. Orange: StriveDrive. The Strategic MEME14. Green: HumanBond. The Relativistic MEME15. Stepping Over to the Second Tier. Yellow: FlexFlow. The Systematic MEME16. The Second Tier, A Second Step. Turquoise: GlobalView. The Holistic MEMEPart IV: Global Order and Chaos on the Dynamic Spiral:17. Global Awakenings: ‘New World Order’ (and Chaos)Resources for Spiral WizardsOther version:There’s a doc, but I have not checked if the content is identical. The publishing date is different. PDF 2013, DOC 2000